 | Simon Greenleaf - 1866 - 756 pages
...question relevant to the matter in issue, merely on the ground that the answer may establish, or tend to establish, that he owes a debt, or is otherwise subject to a civil suit ; provided the answer has no tendency to accuse himself, or to expose him to any kind of penalty or... | |
 | 1868 - 856 pages
...himself, and he may consequently decline to answer any question that tends to expose him to punishment as a criminal, or to penal liability, or to forfeiture...is, that a counsel, attorney, or solicitor is not ibound, or even entitled, to divulge the secrets of the cause with which he has been intrusted; and... | |
 | 786 pages
...or forfeiture of any nature whatsoever, on the ground that the answering of such question may tend to establish that he owes a debt, or is otherwise subject to a civil suit. The CLP Act, 1854, s. 51, empowers parties to deliver interrogatories on matters " as to which discovery... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1864 - 626 pages
...whatsoever, by reason only, or on the sole ground, that the answering of such question may establish or tend to establish, that he owes a debt, or is otherwise subject to a civil suit. This act, as a statute, of course has no authority here, but as strictly a declaratory law it is entitled... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant, John Cole Lowber, Thomas M'Kean Pettit, George Sharswood, Henry Wharton, Samuel Dickson, James Parsons, William Wynne Wister - 1872 - 556 pages
...whatsoever, by reason only, or on the sole ground, that the answering of such question may establish or tend to establish that he owes a debt, or is otherwise subject to a civil suit, either at the instance of His Majesty, or of any other person or persons." [CocKBCRN, CJ — That statute... | |
 | Great Britain - 1873 - 776 pages
...reason only or on the sole ground that the answering ness, &c. of such question may establish or tend to establish that he owes a debt, or is otherwise subject to a civil suit either at the instance of his Majesty or of any other person or persons. CHAPTER XLIII. AN ACT for... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1874 - 726 pages
...penalty or forfeiture on the sole ground, that the answering of such question may establish or tend to establish that he owes a debt, or is otherwise subject to a cieil action. So, also, upon the general principle of the convenience of public justice, no questions... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Simmons - 1875 - 612 pages
...him to penalty or forfeiture, by reason only that the answer to such question may establish, or tend to establish, that he owes a debt, or is otherwise subject to a civil suit. 968. It is not for the party calling the witness to suggest an objection to the question, nor to support... | |
 | Austin Abbott - 1857 - 608 pages
...a witness phall not be excused from answering, on the ground that the answer may establish, or tend to establish, that he owes a debt, or is otherwise subject to a civil suit (2 Rev. Statt^ 4 . •/.. 652 ; Cook v. Spaulding, 1 //.•'•". 586). Our statute is substantially... | |
 | New York (State) - 1876 - 398 pages
...excused relevant question, on the ground only that the answer may tend to lying testt establish the fact, that he owes a debt, or is otherwise subject to a civil suit. But this provision does not require a witness to give an answer, which will tend to accuse himself... | |
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... may establish, or tend to Establish that he owes a debt, or is otherwise subject to a civil suit, either at the instance of his majesty, or of any other person. 
